TERROR (USA)

Nomen est omen: instead of easy listening, Los Angeles-based Terror's kettle of worms is tender trashing. Before Terror, the vocalist Scott Vogel was marinated in the acrid environment of the band called Slugfest, and later some of the band's former members have chosen the equally fiery Hatebreed as their retirement spot. The band, formed in 2002, has released three full-length albums, of which the latest is Always the Hard Way from the year 2006. A piquant additive to the formula, showing what Terror thinks of the most purist metalcore, is to have hip hop artists feature on the album.

Terror has been touring with such names as Madball, Biohazard and Sick of It All, sometimes stimulating themselves and their audience to such inspired moshing that gigs have been suspended in order to restore some kind of order. Before Terror's performance at Ilosaarirock, the band has been touring the planet at an astonishing rate. No hope, then, of catching these fellows unawares: Terror's experience is iron-hard and Scott Vogel's vogelisms rain on the audience thick and fast as ever.

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